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Last Name Bourrit

Given Name Marc Théodore

alt. Names M. T. B. ;

Marriage Anne-Francois-Frédérique Dentand (1xxx-1xxx)

Children enamelist and artist Jeanne-Isaline Bourrit (1775-1855)

Year born 1739 in Geneva

Year died 1819

Place of death Geneva (region)

Father's occupation watchmaker N. N. (1xxx-1xxx)

Relatives portraitist and flower painter Karoline Bourrit (1819-1900)

Education theology ; pupil of Jacques Saint-Ours in drawing & enamelist JacquesThouron.

Country of Activity Switzerland

Worked for M. T. B.: Description des Alpes pennines et rhetiennes (1781) ; Voyage dans les Alpes (1779-96) ; Horace-Benedict de Saussure ;

Patronage King Louis XVI (1xxx-1xxx) ; Emperor Joseph II (1xxx-1xxx) ; worked as enamelist for Genevan watchmaker ;

Collaborators painter and etcher Jeanne-Isaline Bourrit ; engraver Moitte ; engraver C. J. Geissler (1xxx-1xxx) ;

Techniques landscape, natural, and geological painting, gouache, etching, drawing ; enamel painting

Sample(s)

Archival sources Paul Payot Collection Annecy ; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Geneva ;

Published sources AKL 13 1996: 392 ; ThB 4 1910: 467 ; Pinault 1991: 249; biography by C. Bourrit 1836 ;

other Precentor of the Church of St Peter in Geneva, mountaineer; Drew first geographically precise mountainscapes.

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